“I always wanted to become an actress,” Renee O’Connor says with the exuberance of her TV character, Gabrielle, courageous sidekick to Xena: Warrior Princess. “I mean, it was sort of like an obsession.”

Talking to Renee O’Connor on the phone is like talking to Gabrielle - the voice is the same. There is a difference, though. And I realize it is the voice of Gabrielle from “The Deliverer,” “Gabrielle’s Hope” and “The Debt.”